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  "description": "John Rutherford\n\nMulti-award winning producer/director John Rutherford, President\n\nand Creative Director of COLT Studio Group, has produced over\n\n350+ man-on-man films in his career.\n\nThe look of his films is unmistakable and has garnered him multiple\n\nawards and accolades, including a lifetime achievement award from\n\nAVN in 2001, the Hall of Fame award from the Grabby's in 2002 and\n\nanother lifetime achievement award from the Free Speech Coalition\n\nin 2006 as well as winning numerous awards over the years as well\n\nas Best Director 5 times from the annual GayVN Awards Show.\n\nAfter nearly 15 years at the Falcon Family of Companies Rutherford\n\nresigned in June of 2003 and subsequently announced his acquisition\n\nof COLT Studio Group. To date, he has produced and directed over a\n\ndozen features so far for the John Rutherford Feature brand for the\n\nCOLT Studio Group. Taking the helm from famed photographer Jim\n\nFrench in 2003 meant bridging the (at the time) 37-year history of\n\nCOLT Studio with the constantly changing dynamics of the industry\n\ntoday. \"I want to continue the legacy of what Jim created while\n\nblending it seamlessly with the continuing evolution of COLT\n\nStudio,\" says Rutherford.\n\nA California native, Rutherford graduated from San Francisco State\n\nUniversity with a degree in Broadcast Communication Arts.\n\nKnowing his passion lie in the creative arts he immediately began\n\nworking as a freelance producer, videographer and production\n\nmanager. With numerous corporate and industrial videos,\n\nindependent films and personal projects under his belt he was\n\napproached by The Falcon Family of Companies in 1993 for a\n\nfreelance assistant director position. Quickly rising through the ranks\n\nand forming an unbreakable bond with Falcon Studios founder\n\nChuck Holmes, Rutherford hit his stride behind the camera directing\n\nthe multiple award winners for GayVN, AVN and the Grabbys for\n\nFlashpoint, The Renegade, The Other Side of Aspen III & IV, French  Connections I & II, High Tide, The Code of Conduct Series, Out of\n\nAthens I & II, California Kings, Deep South I & II, Absolute, Aqua & Arid, and more recently at COLT Studio Group the multi-award\n\nwinning blockbuster BuckleRoos just to name a few.\n\nWidely accepted as one of the most approachable, honest and hardest\n\nworking directors in the industry today, Rutherford continues on his\n\nquest to bring the highest quality, integrity and creative dynamics to\n\nhis ever-growing library of films. Rutherford hails from Redwood\n\nCity, California and now makes his home in the San Francisco Bay\n\nArea with his partner  since 2000, Tom Settle.",
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